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'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvmpv/eyes-everywhere-congress-is-about-to-vote-to-expand-mass-surveillance-of-americans-experts-warn

Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

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Nevoic

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That's a pretty idealist take in the grand scheme of things. We have hard data that public opinion has virtually no influence on what the law is.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba

If it's something capitalists really want, it'll get put into law. In this case, it's possible they actually don't care to give the government the ability to surveil the public better, so it might be one of the very few things where public backlash could stop it (would actually need data to support this, not just some anecdotes).

Trying to apply this to the broader sociopolitical climate and saying "your voices do matter" is just too reductive. If it's the public vs. the capitalist class in American "democracy", the capitalist class wins every time.

"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. "